If you enjoy fishing in spring-like conditions during December, your window is closing -- at least for the foreseeable future.

Thursday will be another day of warm temperatures and southerly breezes before rain moves in on Friday with the next cold front. After that, we'll see another chilly stretch.

That means anglers will have to get their fix on Thursday, and it will be a good day to do so. Water temperatures have climbed into the 60s at most locations, and the specks have responded. They've moved out onto the flats adjacent to deep water, and are feeding on whatever baitfish they can find.

Look for clean-water flats, and drift/troll while throwing soft-plastics or live shrimp (where available) under corks. To upgrade the size of your fish, throw hard-plastic sub-surface lures.

Redfish are back in the ponds, and will remain there at least through Friday. Fish the cuts on falling tides and the ponds themselves on rising tides.